Will Eisner was born on March 6, 1917, in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants. Growing up in the tenements that would inspire his later works, Eisner was a voracious reader. His tastes ran from the writings of Horatio Alger and Guy de Maupassant to newspaper strips like George Herriman's Krazy Kat.

Will Eisner's Early Comics Career

Will Eisner attended DeWitt Clinton High School, where he was exposed to and experimented with a wide range of artistic media (Batman creator Bob Kane was a classmate). After graduating in the mid-1930s, Eisner worked in a newspaper advertising. He tried getting work as a magazine cartoonist before becoming a freelancer in the then-burgeoning world of comic books.

Eisner found success in the late 1930s, teaming with Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger to form the Eisner and Iger Studio. Eisner and Iger quickly became a preeminent "packager" of comics, creating and syndicating comic books for pulp publishers in America and abroad. Will Eisner created a number of popular characters, such as Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, in rapid succession.

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